This opinion was shared on Espreso by military expert Ivan Stupak, a former Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officer (2004–2015)."A recruitment center is a military facility that everyone knows about — the address, the location, even working hours are listed on every website. Russia thinks like this: if they hit a recruitment center, there will be at least a dozen soldiers and a dozen people processing their papers. That’s a win for them — fewer troops, fewer potential recruits. And it's clear that not every recruitment building has a bomb shelter, especially in frontline and border areas like Sumy, Odesa, Kharkiv, or Dnipro," said Ivan Stupak.According to him, air raid alerts in 2025 illustrate the scale of the threat: just 45 in Zakarpattia, around 50 in Lviv, about 250 in Kyiv, and over 1,000 in Kharkiv. These numbers reflect the intense presence of Russian weapons in the skies and the heightened danger for border and frontline regions."Protecting recruitment centers takes a full-scale approach, and that’s the General Staff’s responsibility. You can’t have one plan for Kharkiv and a different one for Ternopil. This is the army, it's all standardized. Orders are the same across the board, so the protection plan should be, too. We need to assess where the bomb shelters are, maybe move recruitment centers to buildings with basements. Unfortunately, Russia has picked an effective tactic: if a center is hit, the military will die," the expert concluded.On July 3, Russian forces launched drone attacks across Ukraine. In Poltava, a strike on a recruitment center killed and injured people. Two service members and two female employees of the Armed Forces were among the wounded.On July 6, a drone strike hit a recruitment center in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, injuring one person.On July 7, Russia attacked Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia with drones, targeting, among other sites, buildings of regional territorial recruitment and social support centers.